nimbyhater
November 30th, 2005, 04:48 AM
Wynwoods movin up on the national art stage... hope the rich artsy yuppies keep coming down, buying condos, and spending money... and help miami become even more of the international arts and culture hub that it is
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/entertainment/13277717.htm
Wynwood is getting a national reputation as exhibits site
BY ELISA TURNER
elisaturn@aol.com
Wynwood is a work in progress. The downtown Miami neighborhood is rapidly growing as a major art destination on the country's East Coast. Private art collections, local and international galleries, and museums continue to transform workaday industrial warehouses into spacious places for seeing contemporary art from the daring to the derivative.
For this year's edition of Art Basel Miami Beach, the mega art fair running Thursday through Sunday at the Miami Beach Convention Center, galleries and private collections already in Wynwood have new neighbors. Hampered by recent hurricanes, workers have rushed to finish construction.
One of these new art destinations is the Cisneros Fontanels Art Foundation (CIFO), founded in 2002 by Ella Fontanels Cisneros and her family to promote cultural exchanges in the arts. A collector and philanthropist from the wealthy Venezuelan media family, Cisneros also founded Miami Art Central, which opened in December 2003. CIFO will showcase aspects of Cisneros' private art collection, and its programs include a residency for artists from Latin America, says recently hired director Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, and exhibitions of ''experimental and up-and-coming'' artists. These artists will not necessarily be Latin American, she adds.
CIFO features two inaugural exhibits, highlighted on the list of events and public programs provided on the fair's website (www.ArtBasel.com). One is Beyond Delirious, an overview of contemporary photography related to architecture, curated by Christopher Phillips, who has done exhibits at New York's International Center of Photography. The second is Indeterminate States, a selection of video art curated by Michael Rush, author and newly named director of the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University.
Before taking the job leading one of Miami's newest art spaces, Fajardo-Hill directed an alternative art space in Venezuela, among other projects. Renovating CIFO's 13,000-square-foot space in a 1930s warehouse with the storms this fall has been ''maddening,'' she says, but she looks forward to this year's Art Basel Miami Beach.
''It's the absolute best moment to launch a space like this,'' she says. ``There's so much public coming, not only the local public but the international crowds.''
CIFO joins art collections nearby functioning as private museums, the Rubell Family Collection and Margulies Collection at the Warehouse. Its opening during the week of the art fair coincides with the opening of MOCA at Goldman Warehouse, an annex of the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami. This week, the museum kicks off its four-year run in a Wynwood warehouse owned by developers Tony and Joey Goldman.
A vast new art destination in Wynwood is Colección Gary Nader, established by Coral Gables dealer and collector Gary Nader. It's in a 50,000-square-foot building and includes a sculpture park half that size. About two-thirds of the building, Nader says, will be dedicated to selling art, and in the rest, he'll showcase his private collection and attract, he hopes, museum exhibits.
''We want to create shows here and send them to other museums,'' he adds. In Wynwood, Nader plans to show Latin American masters like Matta and Botero with established figures like Andy Warhol and Andreas Gursky.
Another addition to Wynwood's art scene is a gallery based in Valencia, Spain, which has opened a branch here, Luis Adelantado Miami, directly across from the Rubell Family Collection. Adelantado has been steeped in last-minute construction details readying for its opening this week with a show of video and drawing by Anthony Goicolea, who this month won the BMW Paris Photo Prize for Photography.
Other South Florida dealers new to the neighborhood: Barbara Gillman, Diana Lowenstein and Leonard Tachmes
Emmanuel Perrotin Gallery opened here during Art Basel Miami Beach '04, but then closed to renovate its 1950s factory building. It will open again permanently with this year's fair. This 13,000-square-foot space here is double the size of its parent gallery in Paris, says recently hired Perrotin Gallery director Luisa Lagos, and can exhibit three solo shows at a time. Its property includes a sculpture garden, and the gallery plans to construct another building next door, with studio spaces and a showroom.
''The idea is to have artists working in the space to produce more work. There are so many possibilities for the artists,'' Lagos says. She previously worked at the Rubell Family Collection, first as a curatorial intern in 2001 and then as a staff curator in 2003, organizing a traveling show of video art. The Perrotin gallery here represents Miami-based artists Daniel Arsham and Martin Oppel.
''I think it's a good moment to be a part of the international scene that's happening in Miami,'' Lagos says.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/entertainment/13277717.htm
Wynwood is getting a national reputation as exhibits site
BY ELISA TURNER
elisaturn@aol.com
Wynwood is a work in progress. The downtown Miami neighborhood is rapidly growing as a major art destination on the country's East Coast. Private art collections, local and international galleries, and museums continue to transform workaday industrial warehouses into spacious places for seeing contemporary art from the daring to the derivative.
For this year's edition of Art Basel Miami Beach, the mega art fair running Thursday through Sunday at the Miami Beach Convention Center, galleries and private collections already in Wynwood have new neighbors. Hampered by recent hurricanes, workers have rushed to finish construction.
One of these new art destinations is the Cisneros Fontanels Art Foundation (CIFO), founded in 2002 by Ella Fontanels Cisneros and her family to promote cultural exchanges in the arts. A collector and philanthropist from the wealthy Venezuelan media family, Cisneros also founded Miami Art Central, which opened in December 2003. CIFO will showcase aspects of Cisneros' private art collection, and its programs include a residency for artists from Latin America, says recently hired director Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, and exhibitions of ''experimental and up-and-coming'' artists. These artists will not necessarily be Latin American, she adds.
CIFO features two inaugural exhibits, highlighted on the list of events and public programs provided on the fair's website (www.ArtBasel.com). One is Beyond Delirious, an overview of contemporary photography related to architecture, curated by Christopher Phillips, who has done exhibits at New York's International Center of Photography. The second is Indeterminate States, a selection of video art curated by Michael Rush, author and newly named director of the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University.
Before taking the job leading one of Miami's newest art spaces, Fajardo-Hill directed an alternative art space in Venezuela, among other projects. Renovating CIFO's 13,000-square-foot space in a 1930s warehouse with the storms this fall has been ''maddening,'' she says, but she looks forward to this year's Art Basel Miami Beach.
''It's the absolute best moment to launch a space like this,'' she says. ``There's so much public coming, not only the local public but the international crowds.''
CIFO joins art collections nearby functioning as private museums, the Rubell Family Collection and Margulies Collection at the Warehouse. Its opening during the week of the art fair coincides with the opening of MOCA at Goldman Warehouse, an annex of the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami. This week, the museum kicks off its four-year run in a Wynwood warehouse owned by developers Tony and Joey Goldman.
A vast new art destination in Wynwood is Colección Gary Nader, established by Coral Gables dealer and collector Gary Nader. It's in a 50,000-square-foot building and includes a sculpture park half that size. About two-thirds of the building, Nader says, will be dedicated to selling art, and in the rest, he'll showcase his private collection and attract, he hopes, museum exhibits.
''We want to create shows here and send them to other museums,'' he adds. In Wynwood, Nader plans to show Latin American masters like Matta and Botero with established figures like Andy Warhol and Andreas Gursky.
Another addition to Wynwood's art scene is a gallery based in Valencia, Spain, which has opened a branch here, Luis Adelantado Miami, directly across from the Rubell Family Collection. Adelantado has been steeped in last-minute construction details readying for its opening this week with a show of video and drawing by Anthony Goicolea, who this month won the BMW Paris Photo Prize for Photography.
Other South Florida dealers new to the neighborhood: Barbara Gillman, Diana Lowenstein and Leonard Tachmes
Emmanuel Perrotin Gallery opened here during Art Basel Miami Beach '04, but then closed to renovate its 1950s factory building. It will open again permanently with this year's fair. This 13,000-square-foot space here is double the size of its parent gallery in Paris, says recently hired Perrotin Gallery director Luisa Lagos, and can exhibit three solo shows at a time. Its property includes a sculpture garden, and the gallery plans to construct another building next door, with studio spaces and a showroom.
''The idea is to have artists working in the space to produce more work. There are so many possibilities for the artists,'' Lagos says. She previously worked at the Rubell Family Collection, first as a curatorial intern in 2001 and then as a staff curator in 2003, organizing a traveling show of video art. The Perrotin gallery here represents Miami-based artists Daniel Arsham and Martin Oppel.
''I think it's a good moment to be a part of the international scene that's happening in Miami,'' Lagos says.